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Women and madness / by Phyllis Chesler.
LIBRA - Special RC451.4.W6 C47 1989
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chesler, Phyllis.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Mental health--Social aspects.
- Women.
- Women--Psychology.
- Sex role.
- Women--Mental health.
- Hospitals, Psychiatric.
- Social Environment.
- Women--psychology.
- Medical Subjects:
- Hospitals, Psychiatric.
- Social Environment.
- Women--psychology.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xxxvii, 359 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First Harvest/HBJ edition.
- Place of Publication:
- San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, [1989]
- Contents:
- Why madness?
- Asylums
- The clinicians
- The female career as a psychiatric patient
- Sex between patient and therapist
- Psychiatrically institutionalized women
- Lesbians
- Third world women
- Feminists
- Female psychology: past, present, and future.
- Notes:
- Reprint, with new introd. Originally published: 1st ed. Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1972.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 334-353).
- Other Format:
- Online version: Chesler, Phyllis. Women and madness.
- ISBN:
- 0156982951
- 9780156982955
- OCLC:
- 20170154
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